After getting more muscular in recent years and moving onto his fourth swing coach, Chris Como, Chamblee chastised Woods on TV for “destroying the method” that made Woods so dominant early in his career.

“What’s different about this, I don’t know that it’s sad, it’s mysterious. It’s mysterious because time hasn’t robbed Tiger Woods of his game — he’s done this to himself. He’s traded his genius for the ideas of others. He’s changed his body in the gym. That sinewy, perfect body that he had in 2000 that was so explosive, he’s traded for bulk. So everything we see here is the result of what he’s done over the last four, five, six, seven, eight years…

“His complete and utter belief in the ideas of others, turning over this great game of his, I think that’s mysterious to me. His desire to build a great golf game and then destroy it, build another one and destroy it. The gym and the swing, and it’s the perfect combination that robs somebody of the belief and confidence you have to have in your own self.”

Chamblee then argued that there’s never been an athlete at the top of their sport who completely abandoned the method that made them dominant. He noted that Woods has changed his swing coach four times — he won eight grand slam titles with his first coach, Butch Harmon, six with his second, Hank Haney, and zero under his last two coaches.

“He’s been at this for about eight months with Chris Como. I think that’s plenty,” Chamblee continued. “He’s had eight months, Tiger Woods, to move off of the ball and to stay taller and do all of these things that seem pretty simple, and he really hasn’t done it.”

However, there is reason to hope that Tiger could turn his slump around. As Chamblee noted, golf has a wide window for success, and Woods is only 39. Additionally, at the Masters, Tiger seemed to be over his case of the yips and improved his short game dramatically before falling back into a slump in recent tournaments.

There isn’t a ton of optimism that Tiger can turn his game around after several disappointing years, but it seems that finding a method of success and sticking to it could be a beginning.